Transformation Release Management Consultant

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 12 months
• Pay Rate: C$75.00–C$80.00 / Hour (CAD)
• Shift / Schedule: Days

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Our client is seeking an experienced Transformation Release Management Consultant to support a major core banking modernization program. This is a senior-level consulting role focused on coordinating and governing complex software releases across front-end and back-end platforms, ensuring dependencies are understood, sequencing is managed, and releases stay aligned to the overall delivery calendar. The successful candidate will combine strong release management, SDLC, Agile, and software delivery experience with the ability to work across product, engineering, platform, QA, and business teams.

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• Manage and coordinate complex software releases across front-end, back-end, and platform teams.
• Maintain alignment between planned releases, the enterprise release calendar, and overall transformation milestones.
• Understand release sequencing, technical dependencies, integration points, and downstream impacts.
• Partner with engineering, product, QA, architecture, and delivery teams to assess readiness and identify risks.
• Monitor release progress and proactively address schedule risks, blockers, and dependencies.
• Support release planning, governance, implementation readiness, and post-release activities.
• Complement and work closely with the existing release management team.
• Facilitate cross-functional release meetings and provide clear status updates to senior stakeholders.
• Ensure release activities align with established SDLC, Agile, and continuous-delivery practices.
• Drive consistency and discipline across software delivery and release processes.

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• 7 years of experience in release management, technical delivery, program/project management, or software delivery.
• Experience working at a Senior Manager / senior consultant level within complex technology environments.
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple applications, platforms, and technical teams.
• Experience supporting digital products, platforms, or large-scale technology transformation programs.

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• Experience supporting large-scale platform modernization or transformation programs.
• Experience within financial services, banking, or other regulated industries.
• Previous consulting or enterprise transformation experience.

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• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile delivery, and continuous-delivery models.
• Strong understanding of software delivery dependencies, sequencing, testing, and implementation readiness.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, and coordination skills.
• Ability to understand technical issues while maintaining a broader program and delivery perspective.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced environments with multiple concurrent releases and dependencies.

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• Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, release automation, and modern engineering practices.

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This client is a digital-first Canadian bank focused on delivering simple, no-fee everyday banking products to customers across Canada. The organization employs technology consultants, release managers, software engineers, product managers, and delivery professionals who collaborate on innovative core banking modernization and digital transformation programs.

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GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

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Job Number: 26-18343 Industry: Information Technology